often attributive
1
: a round or elongated missile (as of lead) to be fired from a firearm
broadly
: cartridge sense a
2
a
: something resembling a bullet (as in curved form)
b
: a large dot placed in printed matter to call attention to a particular passage
3
: a very fast and accurately thrown or hit object (such as a ball or puck)
Examples of bullet in a Sentence
He was killed by an assassin's bullet.
Bullets were used to separate each item.
The quarterback threw a bullet to the receiver.
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Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America’s Old West, and as a tool of terror and political repression in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
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Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
What Are Lipstick Nails? Lipstick nails are simply diagonal nails that resemble the shape of a bullet lipstick.
—Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 7 Mar. 2025
Some bullets struck the car, but one crossed the street and went into a business.
—Rhiannon Saegert, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025
Less than 10 minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets from his sniper’s perch into a crowd of many thousands of people.
—Time Staff, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
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Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
What Are Lipstick Nails? Lipstick nails are simply diagonal nails that resemble the shape of a bullet lipstick.
—Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 7 Mar. 2025
Some bullets struck the car, but one crossed the street and went into a business.
—Rhiannon Saegert, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025
Less than 10 minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets from his sniper’s perch into a crowd of many thousands of people.
—Time Staff, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Bullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bullet. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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bullet
noun
bul·let
ˈbu̇l-ət 
1
: a usually cone-shaped lead pellet fixed in the front of a firearms cartridge
2
a
: something like a bullet
b
: a large dot used in print to call attention to a particular passage
3
: a very fast and accurately thrown or hit object (as a ball)
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